dai meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

dai

nounalso spelled Dai

Etymology Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit.

Bangladesh, India, North, Pakistan A wet nurse; a midwife.

Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72:

noun

/daɪ/

Etymology From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 傣 (Dǎi), borrowed from a Tai language. Doublet of Tai and Thai. Compare Thai ไท (tai).

An ethnic group of China, one of the 55 officially recognized minorities.

A member of the ethnic group.

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